t v HARRISBURG («R& TELEGRAPH LXXXV— No. 32 COLDEST WEATHER OF YEAR FOLLOWS 24-HOUR STORM Mercury Down to 5 at U. S. Bu reau Station; One Above at Paxtang MICH WIRE TROUBLE Hundred Western Union Poles Down; Bell Line Cut at Sterrctts Gap The coldest weather of the winter in the city has followed the storm of Saturday and Sunday morning:. Last night the mercury at the Weather Bureau dropped to 5 degrees, three below the record for this season. In xome of the nearby towns, including Dauphin, Paxtang and 'cross-river boroughs, the thermometers registered 1 and 2 degrees above zero. Continued cold weather to-night is forecast, to be followed by fair and warmer weather to-morrow, with tem perature about freezing. The most peculiar storm of the win ter hit Harriaburg Saturday morning. • 'entering over Texas. it reached over to the North Atlantic coast, causing rain and snow. A cold wave in Canada made conditions unbearable in some places. In the city and vicinity the rain fell almost uninterruptedly until early Sunday morning, freezing into a thin coat of ice on trees, poles, wires, streets and house tops. Wire trouble and traffic conditions were reported from all parts of Central Pennsyl vania. Wire Trouble Yesterday the main line between New York and Chicago on the Hell Telephone Company circuit was down at Sterrelts Gap and "trouble shoot ers'' found it difficult even to-day to set the line in service owing to the in tense cold. The Western Union line suffered most near Lancaster. More than a hundred Western Union poles on the line between that city and Bedford [Continued on I*atc 5.] Shuman Acquitted of Murder of Daughter, Says Prayer Did It After deliberating until within a lew minutes of Sunday morning the jury which tried William Harvey inhuman, ex-police chauffeur, for the murder of his daughter, Margaret E.. returned a verdict of "not guilty." The jury had been locked up for; nearly eight hours, having retired at i 4:0? o'clock Saturday afternoon. "I have been a wicked man in my time," declared Shuman on hearing l lie verdict, "but since 1 have been in jail there has not been a night that I have not prayed and God has answer ed my prayers, for He knew 1 was innocent." President Judge Kunkel received the report of the jury in the presence of a dozen or more lawyers, a few late wayfarers and some of the court attaches. Immediately following the pro nouncement of the verdict, District Attorney Stroup announced that there were no further charges upon which .Shuman could be held and he was formally dismissed. The ex-police chauffeuc appeared deeply moved by the jury's finding. He was surrounded by a lot of friends who crowded about to congratulate him. The lirst ballot taken was upon the question of returning a second degree verdict. This was voted down by 11 io J. Then the manslaughter charge was considered and for hours the jury was deadlocked. 9 to 2. on this prob lem. Just before midnight the verdict of "not guilty" was made unanimous. The Shuman jury will go down in Dauphin's criminal history as the "jury of the Johns." Of the twelve men. eight of them were surnamcd John. Presbyterian Board Gets Anonymous Gift of $75,000 By .Jssocicted Press Philadelphia, Feb. 14. Dr. William Hiram Kouikes, general secretary of i'ue Presbyterian Board of Ministerial Itelief and Sustentatinn, which is en gaged in raising a fund, of $10,000,000 for the pensioning of retired minis ters and missionaries of the Presby terian Church to-day announced the receipt of an anonymous gift of $75.- 000. The total resources of this board have passed the $4,000,000 mark. i THE WEATHER For Harrlahurg anil vlclnitv: Fair continued cold to-night with low cat temperature about s degreeat Tuniliij fair nnd nirmfr. For Kaatern Pennaylvanlni Fair to nlghti not finite no cold In north ern portion; Tucaday fair, with rlalng temperature) freah north wind*. River The > TOBPEDOED FBENCH SHIP I j Sailor on Baft With Bodies of Fourteen Companions Con firms Beport By Associated Press London, Feb. 14. The British j cruiser Aratheusa and the French j I cruiser Admiral Charaer are the latest victims of the Germans. The. British boat was wrecked by a mine and the French craft was sunk by a submarine. The total loss of life was less than thirty. 1 The British cruiser Aratheusa struck a mine today off the East coast of England, according to a statement Issued by the British official press bureau. It is feared, the statement adds, the vessel will be a total wreck. [Continued on Page 5.] Poor Woman Spurns $40,000 Left by Skinflint Uncle Special to the Telegraph New York. Feb. 14. Miss Edith Hitching, who lives in one room in old , Greenwich village, explained yesterday why she has refused to accept $40,000 at least, and perhaps a great deal more, of the estate left by lier uncle. Francis F. Kipley, a money lender, of i Brooklyn. Jllss Kitcliing earns S3OO a year, and that is all she has. But much as she needs money, her principles and convictions prevent her from taking | the thousands which, she says, are !tainted. ! "The source of my Uncle Kipley's j money was not pure. If there ever ■ was a skinflint on earth, that was j Uncle Ripley. He was a miser from childhood, and the only pleasure he took in living at all was in piling up stacks of gold, grinning over his mort gages. thinking up new ways to grind out interest payments. I would rather ; starve than take a cent of that money, j Me take the money ground out of un j fortunate people? I guess not!" ?ton, Feb. 14.—President Wilson reached no j decision on whom to appoint Secretary of War while'he was t on his w< ek-end trip down the Potomac. • THIRTY CAUGHT IN RAID FINED with an | alternative of thirty days in jail, were this afternoon imposed ; by Mayor E. S. Meals on thirty white men and women, arrested in raids Saturday night, made on two houses in Strawberry street. Heavy fines were imposed on Edward i Dixon, and Maude Washington, alleged proprietor and pro- 1 prietress, respectively. It wa3 charged they enticed white men into their places and robbed them. 1 JURY PANEL EXHAUSTED AGAIN Harrisburg.—ln the murder case of Nikolo Kotur, the * jury panel was again exhausted late this afternoon when the I tenth juror, A. B. Gardner, former Select councilman had • been drawn. The court ordered jurors drawn from the ] a • Shively and William Metzger. j ' THREATENED JOHN MONAGHAN , PI iladelphia, Feb. 14.—While John Monaghan, of the ]| Publ c S< vice Commission, was eating in a restaurant oppo- ' site City Hall this afternoon a man approached and point ing a revolver, said: "I am going to shoot yon." Monaghan ® ► grappled and disarmed him. The assailant was ejected but ! , he is known and probably will be arrested. Monaghan was i formerly assistant district attorney, and it is said at one I time prosecuted the man. ! U. S. WILL AWAIT DEVELOPMENTS , ► Washington, Feb. 14.— The United States probably will ' | leave to future developments whether any action -will be ! L taken in response to the announcement from the Teutonic 1 . allies that armed merchantmen, beginning March 1, will 1 be subjected to submarine attack without warning. 1 Indiana, Pa., Feb. 14. Officials of the Jefferson and Clearfield Coal and Iron Company, checking up the list of 1 its miners to-day, expressed the belief that four men are still buried under the debris in the Ernest mine where an • 1 CM'l' n d -mo,! :>t le;M.t SvcMv-yix live:: last week UAHtUAtit LICENSES • Snmuel st«nlrj NyWeater Crli( nnd Kdnn May Peace, 9teelto«. Harry EL (»ood an